Deliberate (and deliberately offensive) racism should be moderatable. It is Being a Jerk

[What_Exit]

I wrote this in a note about another post in the same thread:

@What_Exit

As of right now, I don’t believe we have any rules that really cover this or the other incident in the thread.

This is from the rules:

@Jonathan_Chance

Hate speech, racist epithets and racism The use of racial epithets, pejoratives, slurs, and other similar items is forbidden. Hate speech as a whole, however, can be defined broadly or narrowly depending on the context of any individual thread. The definition of context is entirely at the discretion of the moderation staff.

It would be a stretch beyond what we normally moderate. But a conversation was started on this subject, because of this thread in ATMB.

---

I think it is a good conversation to have.

I’m going to leave this flag open for now in case another Moderator wants to issue a modnote.